Benquo comments on The Third Alternative - Less Wrong
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I agree. In real life, when the trolley is about to run over the five children, you stop the trolley. You don't flip a switch that moves the trolley over to one other child, much less toss a fat man off a footbridge. And if you can't stop the trolley, you try to find a way; you don't give up and pick the slightly-less-bad option.
First you flip the switch, then you make an extraordinary effort to stop the trolley.